Crown Gall of Stone Fruit

Gall stone dyspepsia.

Gall stone dissolving agents.

During the decade in which the medical dissolution of gall stones has become feasible several drugs have been introduced but only the two listed in the British National Formulary have been intensively evaluated and shown to be effective--chenodeoxycholic acid and the closely allied ursodeoxycholic acid. The dissolution of gall stones was last reviewed in the "BMF" in 1976, at which stage experi...

Colonic gall-stone ileus.

A case of obstruction of the colon by a solitary, large gall-stone is described. This rare event usually occurs in elderly females in whom there is frequently an underlying pathological condition at the site of obstruction in the colon. The calculus usually migrates via a cholecystocolic fistula. Diagnosis may be assisted by plain abdominal X-ray and contrast radiography. Immediate operative tr...

Recovery of crown-gall tumor cells.

nant animal cells are distinguished from healthy or inflaznmstory cells. In emphasizing the perma nency of the cellular alteration, Kidd (6) states that “Cancercells remain such until they die . . they never turn back en masse towards the benign or normal state. . . .“The inability to accomplish a reversal of malignant to normal cells under con trolled conditions has, however, served as a s...

The bases of crown gall tumorigenesis.

The nine decades since Smith and Townsend demonstrated that Agrobacterium tumefaciens causes plant tumors (95) have been marked by a series of surprises. Among the most important of these was the report in 1958 that these tumors could be excised and propagated in vitro without exogenous plant hormones (7). Equally important were a series of reports beginning about the same time that tumors rele...